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Paenibacillus xinjiangensis sp. nov., isolated from Xinjiang province in China

Jee-Min Lim^1,, Che Ok Jeon^2,, Dong-Jin Park¹, Li-Hua Xu³, Cheng-Lin Jiang³ and Chang-Jin Kim¹

¹ Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, 52 Oeundong, Yusong, Daejeon 305-333, Republic of Korea
² Division of Applied Life Science, EB-NCRC, PMBBRC, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, 660-701, Republic of Korea
³ Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650091, PR China

Correspondence
Chang-Jin Kim
changjin{at}kribb.re.kr

Strain B538^T is a Gram-positive, motile, rod-shaped bacterium, which was isolated from Xinjiang province in China. This organism grew optimally at 30–35 °C and pH 8.0–8.5. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain B538^T belonged to the genus Paenibacillus and chemotaxonomic data (DNA G+C content, 47.0 mol%; major isoprenoid quinone, MK-7; cell wall type, A1 meso-diaminopimelic acid; major fatty acids, anteiso-C_{15 : 0} and C_{16 : 0}) supported affiliation of the isolate with the genus Paenibacillus. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analyses showed that the isolate was most closely related to Paenibacillus glycanilyticus DS-1^T, with 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of 98.1 %; sequence similarities to other members of the genus Paenibacillus used in the phylogenetic tree were less than 96.5 %. The DNA–DNA relatedness between strain B538^T and P. glycanilyticus DS-1^T was about 8.0 %. On the basis of physiological and molecular properties, strain B538^T (=KCTC 3952^T=DSM 16970^T) is proposed as the type strain of a novel species within the genus Paenibacillus, for which the name Paenibacillus xinjiangensis sp. nov. is proposed.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain B538^T is AY839868.

A table giving the fatty acid composition of strain B538^T and related strains and a TEM showing the general morphology of strain B538^T are available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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